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"Best Debut Album of 2010. Superb, deeply original."
- Peter Margasak, The Chicago Reader
"Début triomphal"
("Triumphant debut")
- Alex Dutilh, Radio France
"Best Debut Album of 2010"
- Kurt Gottschalk, All About Jazz
"Grupo Revelación 2010"
("The Revelation Group of 2010")
- El Intruso International Critic's Poll 2010
Top 3 "Best Piano Albums of 2010"
- About.com
"Top 12 favorite albums of 2010"
- Scott McDowell, WFMU New York
"Top 20 Favorite Albums of 2010. Superb chemistry."
- The Milk Factory UK
"...the trio moves organically with a constant focus on shaping the sound - a sound that is alternately crystalline and opaque."
- Downbeat Magazine
"...entfesseltesten, sehnsüchtigsten, melancholischsten Freejazz, den er seit Jahren gehört hatte. "
("...the most unleashed, most longing, melancholic free jazz [I've] heard in years.")
- Max Dax, Editor in chief, Spex Magazine
"Un vraiment beau disque, une sorte de maîtrise tranquille..."
("A truly beautiful album, a sort of tranquil mastery...")
- Noël Tachet, Improjazz Magazine
"Dawn of Midi are storytellers, though unconventional ones, creating their own plots out of wisps of smoke and the musical substance at hand, in the moment."
- Art Lange, Point of Departure
"...it's a sheer delight from beginning to end. Wonderful free lyricism and suspense at the same time...Dawn of Midi is something else."
- Stef Gijssels, Free Jazz
"There's no question that jazz has become a global language, and Dawn of Midi offers the proof."
- Time Out New York
"Channeling the strength of three very gifted musicians into a series of hypnotic pieces, First is a terrifically successful and enchanting debut release from Dawn of Midi, and one that shows improvised music at its most fascinating."
- The Milk Factory UK
"...gorgeous...a bizarre yet completely natural sounding amalgam. It has an expansiveness reminiscent of Albert Ayler's pianoless masterpiece Spiritual Unity and yet at the same time the surehandedness of the Bill Evans Trio's legendary Village Vanguard sessions."
- Frank J. Oteri, New Music Box
"Dawn of Midi gets as close to pure, cool, space-age jazz as any of the wannabe cool bands who tried to get there."
- Foxy Digitalis
"Improvisationally gifted musicians with chemistry, the cats can play."
— Mark Dresser
"...a blaze of creativity...Think free jazz meets French impressionists meets John Cage...it is so good."
- On An Overgrown Path
"...a remarkably cohesive design. It's as if the Bill Evans Trio was transmogrified into that of Veryan Weston's or by some temporal trick Erik Satie joined forces with Kent Carter and Roger Turner. All of this name-dropping aside, the trio sounds wholly like itself."
- All About Jazz
"...remarkable...exquisitely exploratory...each member displays tightrope-walk sensitivity...high-level intuition..."
- Chicago Reader
"Magistral!! ...un grand disque."
("Brilliant!! ...a major album.")
- Inactuelles
"...fiercely stimulating...the sound of ultra-sharp intellects at play."
- Mixmag
"In a period when technique and novelty are highly valued in jazz, First is initially striking because it doesn't rely on either."
- About.com
"What Dawn of Midi exemplify is that supreme control goes hand in hand with the creation of emotional states...the most exquisitely judged use of space...one realizes the trio's great awareness of the myriad of possible implications in everything that they play."
- Eartrip Magazine
" ...a world of sound interaction, spontaneous composition and melodic possibility...spell-binding...Dawn of Midi has created a program of music that defies categorization. Come to this music with open ears and the rewards are great."
- Step Tempest
"Rippling between dissonance, melancholia and silence, this is challenging, startling, stuff."
- Mojo Magazine
"...an extraordinarily subtle sound architecture....A remarkable band, a remarkable album that not only fans of the improvisation scene will take to heart."
- Volkmar Mantei, Ragazzi Music
"Power, coherence, and a refined sense of inspired improvisation...on the one hand subtle, sensitive and deep, on the other, powerful and dynamic...the relationship and understanding between these three musicians is perfect."
- Jazzin.rs
"The incomparable free piano trio."
- WFMU New York
"...a uniquely dynamic impression through an array of unpredictable moves...Dawn of Midi's delivery and conviction is warm and compelling with a colourful and vast narrative...a mixture of satisfying bewilderment and a wondrous anxiety..."
- Matt Synthia
"Le trio parvient à nous entraîner dans un monde minimaliste, abstrait et lyrique, et nous tient en haleine tout au long d’un disque totalement réussi."
("The trio leads us through a minimalist, abstract and lyrical world, captivating us all the way through this entirely successful record.")
- Jazzques ...
" A minimalist gem...[Dawn of Midi] are masters of restraint. "
- RifRaf Magazine
"...a refreshing sense of forbearance and understatement...highly adventurous yet listenable..."
- All About Jazz New York
"...they don't sound like any other trio that I've heard before..."
- Taran Singh, Taran's Free Jazz Hour
"A wealth of textures and sounds not attributed to the standard piano trio...Dawn of Midi present utterly captivating and intense trio improvisation....It's a rarified world, sure, but an important one."
- Clifford Allen, Ni Kantu
"Experimental and challenging freeform jazzy gear, from an trio of international virtuosos."
- Data Transmission UK
"Dawn of midi hit upon a sound so naturally, so instinctively and so intellectually taut that it triggers multiple 'why didn't I think of that?' moments. This music is a new minimalism employing free improvisational means. This is a sound with an incredibly promising future."
- Hurd Audio
"...some of the most mystical sounds of new music in my opinion...a beautifully played and recorded album...the sense of composition...everyone listening and leaving space for one another...a recipe for wonder!"
- Matt Smiley, Fail Better
"...profound emotional/aesthetic sync....The music flows naturally...in an inordinately beautiful manner."
- Chris Kelsey
"Dawn of Midi is proof that, indeed, the international free jazz scene is not only developing but thriving."
- JazzNYT
"[a] mass of inventions and bright ideas...sad, gloomy...joyful, even romantic...'First' represents the beginning..."
- Spiritual Archives
"A fine record of inspired improvisation....Could this CD be an unsuspected gem?"
- François Couture, Monsieur Délire
"Awesome debut album!"
- WNUR Chicago
"...elegantly discreet...intelligibility ultimately prevails in this crystal-clear album."
- Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes
"[a] distillation of the intimacy of Bill Evans, Paul Bley and Claude Debussy....sonically immersive."
- David Dacks, Exclaim!
"They take you on a mysterious and hypnotizing journey...fantastic...it is a joy to listen to this album. "
- DM, Vital Weekly
"Listeners searching for rich, post-Bley jazz would do well to check this out."
- Brian Olewnick, Just Outside
"...anyone who wants to find something new (meaning something that excites the senses) will find plenty of beautiful moments...after such a voyage through these lovely soundscapes."
- Cardboard Music
"[They] deliver stark and skeletal updates on the kind of deep-underground free modern jazz....There's a lot to be said for their spartan sound..."
- Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector
"...spaciousness and depth....The music is adrift, patiently rippling its way through dark moods...it's different even for a 'different' piano trio."
- Avant-jazz radio
"Fluorescent visions...beyond schemas and category."
- Beat Bop a Lula
"First er en stærk udgivelse fra en tæt sammenspillet gruppe, der viser, at free jazz sagtens kan være lyrisk og involvere lytteren på flere planer: følelsesmæssigt såvel som intellektuelt."
- Geiger.dk
"Minimal and beautiful. A trio to watch out for."
- Instant Jazz, Best of 2010 List